And now I want to say that there are only two films that have touched my heart to such a degree, as far as I have personally watched in the past half a year: 1900 and The Reader. Both made me teary-eyed and silent.
Say the reader.
The opening credits hint from Berlin in 1995. In an instant, I sighed, it turns out that 1995, a year that seems so close, actually has the qualification to call it "the past". Time flies really fast.
I feel like my review films are usually reread scans of the most impressive episodes.
Impression 1:
Hanna is a great and ordinary woman. At first, it was only out of motherhood and kindness that helped a 15-year-old rich boy like Michael. And because michael was helped and at the same time in adolescence, he had a special feeling and image of hanna, a kind of love that was engraved in a corner of the brain but could not be described clearly. He misses her, loves her, goes back to her down-and-out hut to find her again, and because of the boy's love, because of Hanna's needs, and because of the instinct of the situation, they have sex.
In this relationship, in my understanding, hanna just wants to maintain it in the dimension of affair, hanna hurts michael, pity michael, encourage him, never have the heart to stimulate him or hurt him, but hanna doesn't love him after all. There is an impression that after the two quarreled, hanna soaked in the bathtub, michael sat on the bench beside, michael said a lot, said that he hoped hanna would forgive her, said he cared about her and didn't want to hurt her, and finally he asked her if love him. A 15-year-old boy asked a 35 or 36-year-old woman if he loved him. After only getting along a few times, he could know the answer from common sense. But hanna stared at michael, I think hanna had the answer in her mind, but she didn't think about hurting him, she replied "yes". That's the answer a 35-year-old woman would give in a situation like this, which I thought was open-minded and holy.
Of course, in the end, Hanna chose to leave without saying goodbye. Although the damage was huge, it was also evident from Hanna's demeanor and behavior before and after that it was the result of her choice from the very beginning. She was very happy with Hanna and michael, but she didn't want michael to fall in love with her. When she felt that michael should have his own circle, his own life, and his own direction, she could only leave voluntarily. But at this time, boys in this role are often destined to have indelible feelings for this woman throughout their lives, even if it is no longer love.
Impression 2:
Hanna's performance and final choice in court.
First of all, I still think that Hanna is a great woman. Even during World War II, as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp, she seemed to have done a lot of "harmful" behavior. Many film critics say "I understand that even if you have made mistakes, you can't be considered a person with historical sins". I don't think Hanna's so-called has anything to do with sin at all. Maybe this involves a judgment: whether to admit the statement that "the ignorant are innocent".
At the end of the trial process, Hanna was clearly framed. The judge wanted to check her handwriting. Verifying the handwriting means writing, writing means literacy, and literacy means that Hanna has been avoiding and unwilling to face the one that is fatal to her. The exposure of the death-like judgment. Hanna vowed to protect this dignity, this sacred barrier. So she resisted all the frame-ups and accepted the trial result of life imprisonment.
I can understand Hanna's choice at that moment. Because reading is the sustenance and meaning throughout her life for Hanna. When she is happy, when she is in pain, when the world around her is calm, and when it is chaotic, reading is the longest time and most soul. with thinking. The only difference is that she is not reading, but being read to. Such a sacred mission, but she does not have the tools and abilities that objectively she should have to achieve this mission: literacy. Therefore, even if Hanna chooses to lose her life, she must maintain the dignity of her sacred mission in the eyes of others.
Yes, it is dignity, and it is interpreted from another angle: it is Hanna's true self-protection for herself.
This protection is more important than protecting herself from the crime, which is the real spiritual self-protection. And if she admits her lack of literacy and finally gets rid of the crime, for Hanna, it is tantamount to an on-the-spot execution. I think this is also the fundamental reason why michael couldn't choose to clarify the facts to the tutor, the court and the world in order to clear the name of hanna in the end.
The film made people feel warm afterwards. Hanna's life in the last few years in prison was full. She slowly picked up more meaning of life, and her life became full and content. The key is a sense of inner fullness. For Hanna at that time, getting out of prison didn't mean much to her anymore. This also hints to a certain extent one of the reasons why she will finally choose to end her life in prison.
The only thing I can't fully understand in the whole film is: why did michael say that he was no longer reading for hanna when he finally saw hanna? But in any case, the influence this woman brought to Michael is lifelong, and Michael's life has grown more profound because of this story. Such a man, when I read him, I feel very much, but standing in front of him and touching him, I am. . . How will it be?
ps. In the aspect of hanna's maintenance of dignity, it is somewhat similar to "Peacock" and "Lichun".
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